Syncfusion Essential Studio for WinRT Beta

Syncfusion has been a major player in the 3rd party development component market for a while now. Their products include .NET development UI controls for ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Mobile, WinForms, WPF, Silverlight, and more. The newest tool release is a suite of controls that are made for Windows 8 WinRT development. The product is called Essential Studio for WinRT and it's made up of a plethora of highly attractive, cutting edge controls that are specifically designed for WinRT and touch interfaces.

20 Highly optimized controls

Syncfusion Essential Studio for WinRT comes with 20 control that are designed with touch control and performance in mind. The controls are vast and provide everything that you need to developing cutting edge user interfaces for your Windows 8 applications such as dashboards, maps, charts, and more.

The Studio suite comes with controls that allow your application to create Microsoft documents like Word, Excel as well as Adobe PDF documents on the fly. The controls are completely independent and do not require Microsoft Office or Adobe Acrobat to be installed on the machine. This is an incredible value which will allow applications to create receipts, invoices, work orders, or any other sort of document that you'd find in a standard line of business application.

Samples included

As with their other products, Syncfusion has bundled many sample applications (with source code) to help you to get up and running with the tools in no time. The samples are written in C#/VB.NET and XAML.

Creating Windows 8 Graphics with Metro Studio

Syncfusion has also offered a free product called Syncfusion Metro Studio. Metro Studio is an extremely useful application that provides a huge selection of "Metro" style art snippets that you can edit. This is a tremendous solution that helps you to add graphics to you Windows 8 applications. The best part is it's FREE!

The artwork is divided into logical groups for you to choose the art that best suites your needs.

When you select a graphic, you are presented with the option to edit the image. Here you can change the size and color. You can also preform transformations like rotate. Syncfusion Metro Studio allows you to output the edited image as standard image files as well as XAML.

As you can see, Syncfusion have provided two extremely useful tools for Windows 8 developers and not only are they first class tools, they are also free!

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